The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Trickster stories are pleasurable, contradictory, annoying, abrasive. They're powerful, transformational acts of liberation because they are not nailed down to the real, to the representation of something in the world.
Magic is like special effects live, and I love to perform, so it sounded like doing magic tricks were a good way to entertain people.
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
Magic, historically, has been a man doing tricks with no wider story behind it.
One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun.
I'm such a proponent of the theatrical experience and the cinematic experience, and we've reached this point where the magicians are not only giving away their tricks, but they're telling us how they're doing the tricks in advance before you even come to the magic show. It'd be nice to get a little of the mystery back in.
Of course, in all magic tricks there's a secret.
I'm still involved in the business of Cheap Trick, so I keep my eye on that kind of stuff.
Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.